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We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.

Barry Lopez

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
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Character Land Mind
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don’t know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It’s not that I’m not interested-it’s not where I live. I live inside the story.
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Looks Stories Writing
I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.
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Animal Blood Eerie
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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Century Despise Quality
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we’re doing on this planet.
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Atmosphere People Thinking
We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.
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Calling Helping World
You can’t learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.
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Education Learning Time
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
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Dream Nature Regret
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
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Inspirational Motivational Struggle
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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Hands Nature Rivers
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
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Political Rivers Technology
The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
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Land Mean Way
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
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Land Understanding Urges

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.

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We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.

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